When Joshua Snow was born in 1804, in Gunning Cove, Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Warren Washington Snow, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Ann Rowland, was 18. He married Anna Isabella Snyder on 4 May 1826, in Shelburne, Shelburne Town, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 1 May 1867, in his hometown, at the age of 63, and was buried in Churchover, Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.